Jean-Luc did nail the weaves on his first run, but Yrs Trly offered up a handling error that cost him the leg. The second day he got a severe case of Happy-Tail that cost him the weaves and the leg. For Jean-Luc, Happy-Tail is as much an achievement as a clean run, so we celebrated anyway. The photographer on course happened to catch him going over the triple with his Silly Dog face. Here he is...
(Grand Images)






This is Belle in backyard practice in prep for the trial; she's going over raised jumps to get her thinking about the bars. I was also doing "switch" exercises (the switch command tells the dog they're changing direction over the fence so they can change lead legs), and you can see her looking in the new correct direction, with her legs arranged to come down on the proper lead. This has been a hard one for my little "cling-on" Corgi to learn, since the handler footwork means she has to move out ahead of me and she prefers it if I hold her paw all the way.
(Nope, this isn't black and white--just a blue merle on dead grass on a grey winter day.)

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